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07/18/11 High School Musical star Vanessa Hudgens has ditched her glamorous look for her new movie Gimme Shelter to play a dishevelled, pregnant tomboy with piercings.
07/18/11 One year after issuing a report that has defined Governor Christie's goals for the state's sports and entertainment industries, Jon F. Hanson says, "We still have work to do."
07/17/11 Wells Fargo Insurance Services has hired Jenna Weber as a commercial sales executive. In addition to her previous insurance experience, Weber worked as a district manager for Lamar Outdoor Advertising for more than eight years.
07/17/11 When former State Sen. Wayne Bryant goes to trial in December, federal prosecutors want to use details from his 2008 corruption conviction to paint a picture of the once-powerful Camden County lawmaker as a rogue legislator who used his elected position to line his pockets.
07/15/11 WEST MILFORD, N.J. Vatche Aghjayan, a jeweler from Alpine, N.J., crashed his single-engine plane on Saturday at Greenwood Lake Airport after he overshot the runway and rolled down a steep embankment.
07/09/11 New York Last year, NJ TRANSIT launched the Quiet Commute program in certain cars, to test its feasibility with commuters on the railways. After receiving overwhelmingly positive feedback from customers, NJ TRANSIT expanded the program at the beginning of this year to include all peak-period, peak-direction trains that begin or end their trips at New York Penn Station or Newark Penn Station.
07/09/11 Anyone who has ever heard of Newark, NJ, probably has heard a bad thing or two about its crime rate-- but is it really this bad? A city councilman is now proposing a law that would require certain small restaurants to have "armed guards" standing over the places after 9 PM. On last night's Freedom Watch , Judge Andrew Napolitano explained the law and demanded to know one element of it that seems ...
07/09/11 The Hazlet Hammerheads summer swim team is still accepting new members for the 2011 summer swim season. Youths ages 5-18 who are members of the Hazlet Swim and Tennis Club are eligible to join. All levels of swimmers are welcome. For more information about the swim team, visit www.hazletswimteam.org . read more
07/09/11 Here are brief highlights from the fourth and final day of the Reebok Breakout Challenge at Philadelphia University.
07/08/11 It is more than amusing to hear Senate President Stephen Sweeney, D-Gloucester, use the naughty generic (the p-word, for some) term for the male organ when referring to Gov. Chris Christie -- and the shocked outrage that followed in the media.
07/08/11 Monday service is being restored at all 39 of the Motor Vehicle Commission agencies in New Jersey.
07/08/11 Atlantic City, NJ (July 8, 2011) - The Junior Middleweight bout between Paul "The Punisher" Williams and Cuban southpaw Erislandy Lara and World Boxing Association (WBA) Super Bantamweight Championship bout between WBA #1-ranked Rico Ramos and Akifumi Shimoda are just 24 hours away and the officials have been announced.
07/05/11 Prosecutors claim former Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell accepted a $10,000 bribe from a man posing as a crooked developer looking for help with a hotel project.
07/04/11 Ohio's new Republican Gov. John Kasich is a study in contradictions.
06/29/11 From candy factory to Fantasy Factory, WONKA?® today announced its partnership with Rob Dyrdek, star of MTV hit series "Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory," celebrity host of the highly-anticipated new MTV reality video series "Ridiculousness," and founder of Street League Skateboarding on the ESPN family of networks.
06/29/11 John O'Boyle/The Star-LedgerSome of the stores lining Main Street in East Orange. The area is part of the state's Urban Enterprise Zone program, which is expected to be debated today as the state budget comes up for a vote. TRENTON...
06/29/11 John Munson/The Star-LedgerN.J. Attorney General Paul Fishman in this April 2011 Star-Ledger file photo. State law enforcement authorities are mounting a coordinated response to rising gang activity in cities and suburbs, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman said Tuesday. Gang...
06/29/11 LAS VEGAS and NEWARK, N.J., June 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Cord Blood America, Inc . (http://www.cordblood-america.com) (OTC Bulletin Board: CBAI), the umbilical cord blood stem cell preservation company focused on bringing the life saving potential of stem cells to families nationwide and internationally, announced today it has entered into agreement with Horizon ...
06/27/11 As Streamline Air?s recently established commercial flights out of Trenton Mercer Airport take off, jobs in the Princeton area could do the same.
06/11/10 Renee Montgomery scored a career-high 29 points to lead the Connecticut Sun to an 86-77 victory over the Indiana Fever on Friday. Montgomery made a 3-pointer and two free throws during a 15-5 run in the final 3:08 that helped the Sun (6-2) seal the victory. Tina Charles added 12 points and 12 rebounds for Connecticut, while Sandrine Gruda scored 12 points and Tan White had 10. |